Department of Industrial Engineering
4207 Bell Engineering Center
1 University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Phone: (479) 575-3156
Fax: (479) 575-8431
New Faculty Members To Join Industrial Engineering
Sandra D. Eksioglu
Sandra will join the Department of Industrial Engineering and hold the John M. and
Marie G. Hefley Professorship in Logistics and Entrepreneurship starting in August
of 2019. She received her Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering from the University
of Florida. Prior to joining the University of Arkansas, she served as a faculty member
at Mississippi State and Clemson Universities.
Sandra’s expertise lies in the areas of operations research, network optimization,
and algorithmic development. She uses these tools to develop models and solution algorithms
for solving large-scale problems that arise in the areas of transportation, logistics,
and supply chain. Her research has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation
(NSF), the Department of Energy, the Department of Transportation and the Department
of Homeland Security. She is currently serving in the editorial board of Optimization Letters, Journal of Energy Systems, and Journal of Cleaner Production.
Sandra was a recipient of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management
Sciences (INFORMS) Moving Spirit Award for Chapters in 2010, National Science Foundation
CAREER Award in 2011, and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)-Southeast
Mid-Career Teaching Award in 2015. She was the winner of the Best Application Paper
in IISE Transactions Focus Issue on Scheduling and Logistics in 2018 & 2019. She currently serves as Chair of the Women in Engineering Division
of ASEE; she was the Chair of Railway Application Section of the INFORMS, and the
President of Operations Research Division of IISE. 
Burak Eksioglu
Burak will also join the Department of Industrial Engineering as a Professor in August
2019. He received a doctorate in industrial and systems engineering from the University
of Florida, a master’s degree in engineering business management from the University
of Warwick in the UK, and a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from Bogazici
University in Turkey. His research program is focused on the area of optimization
with applications in transportation, logistics, production management, supply chain
management, and healthcare.
Burak’s research has been sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), NASA, the Mississippi Department of Transportation
(MDOT), and industry. He currently serves as Associate Editor of IISE Transactions. He has served as the president of the Operations Research and the Logistics and
Supply Chain Divisions of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE).
He also served as the director of a Tier 1 University Transportation Center.
Burak has received numerous teaching and research awards such as the Best Application
Paper Award from IISE Transactions, Bagley College of Engineering Faculty Research
Award, and Excellence in the Teaching of Operations Research from IISE. He is a member
of Tau Beta Pi, INFORMS, IISE, ASEE, and POMS.